"Don't shit where you eat" [revisited]

[George Thompson]

A friend from graduate school, a veteran of WWII, would remark "don't shit in your mess-kit" or "I'm afraid he's shit in his mess-kit" -- with reference to making a serious blunder.

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George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.

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